The Greatest Of Gifts
The Greatest Preparation
The Greatest Consideration
The Greatest Consideration
His name is Emmanuel, God with us: not only God from before all worlds, but God with us in our nature. The Word was made flesh: Jesus was born at Bethlehem, and there he was nursed at the breast of a woman. He lived among our race, bearing our infirmities, and tempted in all points like as we are, though without sin.
The Greatest Price
God deigned to be made man, to suffer, be crucified, and die for this purpose: that by His passion, cross, and death, He might show you how much He loved you, for whom He toiled and endured so much. Be not then ungrateful, nor unmindful of all those things, which the Lord Jesus did on earth. But carefully consider the mighty works of God, liberally wrought in favor of the whole human race.
Jesus Christ did not come into the world to help you to forget your sin. He has not come to furnish you with a cloak with which to cover it. He has not appeared that He may so strengthen your minds (as some men would have you believe) that you may learn to laugh at your iniquities, and defy the consequences thereof. For no such reason has the Son of God descended from Heaven to earth. He has come, not to lull you into a false peace, not to whisper consolation which would turn out to be delusive in the end, but to give you a real deliverance from sin by putting it away, and so to bring you a true peace in which you may safely rejoice.
The Greatest Gift
God deigned to be made man, to suffer, be crucified, and die for this purpose: that by His passion, cross, and death, He might show you how much He loved you, for whom He toiled and endured so much. Be not then ungrateful, nor unmindful of all those things, which the Lord Jesus did on earth. But carefully consider the mighty works of God, liberally wrought in favor of the whole human race.
THOMAS À KEMPIS (CA. 1380–1471)
God deigned to be made man, to suffer, be crucified, and die for this purpose: that by His passion, cross, and death, He might show you how much He loved you, for whom He toiled and endured so much. Be not then ungrateful, nor unmindful of all those things, which the Lord Jesus did on earth. But carefully consider the mighty works of God, liberally wrought in favor of the whole human race.
THOMAS À KEMPIS (CA. 1380–1471)